It was exciting to get our first look at the starting Pokémon of Sun and Moon, coming November 18th for the 3DS, but did you put much thought into the newest protagonists we were introduced to? From the looks of the trailer customization seems to have returned (THANK YOU) and we may even be able to remove our hats (although honestly it seems like a beginning cutscene when he is preparing)!
The male character starts out with longer hair and a simple baseball cap, while the female character has a rather unique hat almost reminiscent of Ruby’s. When you begin the game, you’ll get to choose a skin tone which all start with varying hair colors.
A new change is the way the characters are portrayed on the overworld; the chibi-style of Pokémon X&Y has disappeared and the protagonists are much more proportionate to their full display in battle.
What do you think?! Even if there is trainer customization, are these a good template with which to customize?
<3 PJ
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Do you think that the new legendaries will be part Steel type? At least they seem to have metallic parts.
I do like the fact that their foreheads look to be like glass monitors rather than organic parts of their heads lol
Fits well with Magearna, who was made by humans ! Do their eyes remind anyone else of dialgas/ palkias
Introducingggggggg Light type! 😀 no? okay ._.
This might sound odd, but Solgaleo could be Fire/Psychic-type (I say that cause of its glowing eyes during its signature move) while Lunaala could be Fairy/Flying-type. I doubt it, but it kinda fits. Sorta…
or Dark/Fairy
Dark-type only if it’s suppose to represent some kind of evil or “badness.” Fairy-type definitely fits because the moon has been associated with Fairy-types in this series.
But it also looks kind of bat / vampire
Bat, yes, but vampire? Not at all. Also, bats aren’t evil. Plus, look at its signature move. That beam doesn’t look like evil energy. Looks more like it could be concentrated moon energy similar to Moonblast. http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/689/620/6c5.gif
maybe u are right, but it has something evil for me
I don’t think so Moon legendary more like ghost/dark-fairy/flying…..sun pure fire or fire-psychic.
Remember, Dark-type is known as Evil-type in Japan. Just because it’s of the night doesn’t mean Lunaala is evil.
I see both being part Psychic. Probably Fire and Dark. Psychic is technically the cosmic type sooooo….
I cannot wait to have a team with Rowlet, Torchic and Piplup <3
Aaaaadorable~♥
I’ll fire up the grill
LOL
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Oh man, I’m getting hungry.
…….well we got 3 bird Pokemon
Naw man. Wait until they’re bigger. More meat. >:D
So a lot of people are saying that the game looks identical to X and Y. But actually X and Y and Sun and Moon are quite different. I think what they mean is that ORAS looks similar to these games. ORAS also improved on the graphics of X and Y but still I think Sun and Moon have even better looking graphics than ORAS
(except for the colors, ORAS was like a children’s tv show with all them bright greens and blues XD)
Game Freak must definitely do this on purpose. Each and every generation has a different look to the overworld, upgrading each time. X & Y were chibi, ORAS had a bit of an update, but Sun & Moon changed it up and evolved their chibi into normal size. I love it.
Yes, and its AMAZING NOW…. It feels like you are more attached to the character/protagonist.
Yes. XY and S&M look SOOOOOO identical. Refresh
I mean, in XY the characters were almost the size of the Pokémon centers
AZ?
Sun&Moon look polished and cleaner. It’s very smooth, but X and Y isn’t bad. It’s just very rough and geometric. But because of the removal of grid based moving, I feel like the region will feel like an actual place. Because its not square and circle, its curvy and grander.
XY was too easy and short
XY was an experiment for GameFreak. ORAS was an improvement of XY. These games are the real thang
Hopefully these are great then since they had an off year.
XY was just a placeholder for ORAS and a distraction for Gen 7
Yup
Stop posting your tweets on PJN you upvote whore
Not miss Chico calling him out
That’s not from Twitter. That’s from my phone gallery.
*rf*
I was using it for comparison of a shitty region versus Alola
Kalos is kinda shitty, this new region is beautiful. This game has the potential to be the best generation ever, imo.
It will be as long as there’s a formula similar to Gen 5.
I actually like Kalos, but it should’ve been bigger
on a side note, Im worried that Alola isn’t as ambitious as Kalos or Unova. We’ve already seen Honolulu (Hawaii’s biggest city) and while the detail and texture is far superior to XY, its not exactly breathtaking either…
Well since this is just the first island, I assume the best stuff will be later in the game!
Well I hope so. Hawaii is a beautiful state but it doesnt exactly have many iconic locations or landmarks. Theyre going to have to get creative
That’s very true. Hopefully there’s a cool volcano location, if that’s not too obvious lol.
There’s always the chance this isn’t even finished graphics either. The image from XY was from way before they finished it.
Im not so much worried about graphics than just locations and landmarks. Kalos had inspiration from Mont Saint-Michel, the Eiffel Tower, Versailles and more. Unova had Manhattan, Jersey City, Brooklyn and more. Im sure Hawaii has some notable areas but theyre just not nearly as iconic
For what it’s worth, there aren’t really any iconic landmarks in Sinnoh/Hokaido or Hoenn/Kyuushu except for Mt Coronet/Mt. Fuji. They also didn’t use a lot of Tokyo’s famous landmarks for Kanto like Shibuya crossing or the Meiji Shrine.
Thats true but those games are practically a decade old at this point. I think after the bar was raised with BW and XY they shouldn’t go back to that simplistic style.
They can always add more stuff if they think it’s bland.
Yeah I hope they get super creative and include ideas and places that are maybe sci-fi or fantasy based to really elevate the region.
finally we get NPCs at real scale and not miniaturized people
So after I finish Yellow, what game should I replay?
1) Soulsilver
2) Black 2 or White 2
3) Y
Kinda leaning towards Y…
Soulsilver.
Always a great option. I’m really tempted
I reset my Y file yesterday and beat the first gym (took me ages to get the pokemon I wanted. My team: piplup,volt tackle pichu,torterra,charmander(soon),togepi, aipom). I love HGSS though, it’s fun to see the pokemon following you 🙂
Maybe I’ll just give up and play both at the same time xD I really just wanna do a play through where I don’t breed or worry about IV’s/natures and stuff
I did that with my last ORAS playthrough. I only used pokemon that I had never used and with whatever nature they had and it was actually fun. It does bug me to have bad natures though. If a Pokemon is a physical attacker I’ll take any nature that lowers the special attack for example.
Yeah ever since I learned about natures and stuff years ago it bugs me when I don’t breed for them lol
I just keeping catching the pkm until I find one with an acceptable nature haha
I think the protag white one looks fine, but the darkskinned black one doesnt look right.the hair doesnt fit the skin tone, the hair sorta looks blueish. They should have just made it black hair. And the hair is too long for me also. Also the running animation looks stupid imo
Would you prefer Velma?
The female protag will run like Velma
Scooby-Doo
More like Scooby-Don’t
Yeah everyone hates the water starters at first. Oshawott, Froakie, now Popplio. Same stuff each time, oshawott is like piplup, its nose is terrible, Froakie is sad and old and its bubble nose is terrible, Popplio is a clown and its nose is terrible. How cool the fire starter is… Bla bla bla. Then Emboar, Quilladin and Delphox happen and everyone suddenly forget about noses…
Honestly, just in the day they’ve been out the starters have grown on me so much. My initial impression was “they’re all terrible”, and now i like them all in their own way! Rowlet’s still the best tho 😉
I think water starter is fine, first time I actually dislike the fire starter. Grass one is also fine
I think Delphox was fine, didn’t like Emboar though.
There is always a general consensus when it comes to stuff like this, but I don’t like people that bandwagon hate something without substance and just repeat what famous poketubers say. Pokemon designs always get hatred with many people thinking they can design something better, with pretty laughable results.
Of course there’s plenty of designs I dislike but I can’t say I can do better, not will I ever say GF are ‘running out of ideas’, which is probably one of the most absurd claims I’ve ever heard.
If anyone cares there was some pretty big Pokemon tcg news just revealed http://www.pokebeach.com/2016/05/more-set-info-for-xy11
I’m just waiting for Mega Camerupt and Sharpedo…
I don’t think they’ll make a mega sharpedo card, because there alreaady is a regular (terrible) sharpedo ex.
Same with camerupt…they could be tin promos.
They’ve made like three Primal cards and three mega Gardevoir. They can make at least one Mega Sharpedo.
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sketch i did of the starters!
The two parts i am most excited about:
* The new overworld improvements, such as true character size and detail of the overworld itself.
*The possibility of seeing trainers in battle, if you look at screenshot #3, this is either the entry or attack stage of the battle, and it makes more sense that the trainer is standing there, i also noticed they vanish if an attack is used, (Which may be because of reducing lag and battle time) i hope this evolves or is optimized into something significant like maybe mega evolution, a new mechanic, or at least what happened in Pokemon Colosseum/XD with reactions to attacks, with triple battles, that might actually be kinda fun.
I’m so excited about this
In the Japanese trailer, the supposed rival actually stays as the Pokemon gets attacked. I could image the Trainer disappearing during certain animations or Wi-Fi Battles. I just hope they are animated to react with the battle surrounding.
Heck yeah, about time~
Is CoroCoro gonna leak this month or is it only going to be the trailer ?
Corocoro leaks every month, but it’ll probably just repeat info from the trailer, and maybe have protagonist arts or some new info
I think it might give more info on the region,the names of the protagonist,maybe the types of the legendary and maybe some new pokemon like the bird in the first announcement.
I had a theory for the S&M starters final stage, I believed they would keep the double effectiveness against each other as in X&Y.
Rowlet final evo: Grass/ Flying
Litten final evo: Fire/ Dark
Popplio final evo: Water/Fighting
It almost works, but unfortunately Litten being Fire/ Dark isn’t double effective against Grass/Flying Rowlet, so I don’t know. Although I still think it’s very likely 🙂
How’s this for Rowlet’s second stage
Taller and bulkier body, the stomach area opens up and dark green and brown markings adorn its belly, it’s develops legs with zygodactyl talons, the wingspan doubles and at the bottom quills stick out, now the big part is the face with grows these long leaf like eyebrows that stick out and on the top of the head branches form similar to horns with tiny buds, and the tail grows two additional leaves
The recently released trailer for Pokemon Sun and Moon has amassed around 5 million views in just two (one and a half if you were being technical) days! Taking into account the already gargantuan viewership audience of 8 million by the announcement video, the Sun/Moon era has already garnered an impressive 13 million views! In a few weeks, the trailer will surely reach around 7 – 8 million dependent on dissemination of news and whether or not it had received its viewership spike yet (which it most certainly has when assessing the data)! This era is going to be INSANE! Will Sun and Moon be the first games since the Generation 1 and 2 ones to break the 20 million barrier?!
I can totally see Rowlet become this gentleman-like owl evolution with a grass cape and a hat made of branches! Just look at that leaf bowtie! It’s the stepping stones to a dapper Pokemon!
Rowlet = Ring Master
Popplio = Clown / Sea lion that does tricks
Litten = The tiger or the flaming hoop jumper guy (I’ve never been to a circus)
I seen this seconds after my post :p
Lol! Great minds think alike! 😛 xD
I foresaw a large sage like owl with long wings with sharp feathers
A tall slender body with smooth feathery leaves that are razor sharp, and it’s face grows actual branches from the base of the beak and spreads out and these horn like branches can allow it to sense movement, and beak sharp enough to stab through tree trunks
Rowlet – Ring Master
Litten – Fire hoop jumping tiger
Poplio – Clown Seal
Circus theme confirmed…
*refresh*
Yeh, saw it just after posting. Lol
Yes!!!!
It’s Britney b*tch http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/37100000/Britney-Spears-Circus-britney-spears-37158615-1920-1080.jpg
Does anyone have guesses as to what the “r” in rowlet is for? I can’t for the life of me recognise it having to do with a grass theme.
Could refer to rows as in seats around a theater or… circus stage… 😀
I was also trying to figure that out. Maybe it’s a play on “roll” + “owlet”?
I found online a few people saying Rowan + Owlet. I gues it makes sense, because it is a tree, but I think they could’ve done better, or worked off of the “t” in owlet.
Yeah I thought of that too. Roll doesn’t make too much sense unless they’re alluding to it being based on a coconut, which are spherical. That seems like too loose of a connection though.
Either way, I hope it has some significance. It is really bothering me because most pokemon have two or three words in a name origin.
Same! It’s pretty obvious what the other two are, Lit + Kitten & pop + lion, but this one is vexing.
The lio in Popplio doesn’t actually come from lion. According to Bulbpedia, Popplio may be a combination of pop and lio from Ilio-holo-i-ka-uaua, the Hawaiian name for the Hawaiian monk seal, meaning “dog that runs in rough water”.
Hm, that’s pretty neat. Thanks!
Russian Rowlet.
Anyone notice the X/Y sound effects in the trailer? I wonder if those are place holders for now
Which sound effects?
In the Japanese trailer there are sound effects if you listen closely in some parts
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YASSSS this is the best meme I’ve seen so far XD
Hey, it’s the name I chose! Cool!
I dont know why I’m still excited for CoroCoro when it most likely going to be a repeat of the Trailer yesterday
Does anyone else think Rowlet will lose its Flying-type as it evolves? I can’t help but feel it’ll evolve into a flightless bird like a kakapo (pictured below). Rowlet might end up evolving into a giant, flightless parrot-owl shrub… and I’m ok with that.
I don’t see it losing it’s Flying-Type! Why would it lose something that makes it unique?
Extremely unlikely
I hope so. I don’t like Grass/Flying type because an ice move is an immediate KO.
Maybe it will learn a new move to defend against Ice attacks
The description of Rowlet discusses it’s kicks… It could become a Grass/Fighting bird like Blaziken
And then the Grass starters go the fire route and we only get Grass/Fighting
I don’t mind too much. I never pick the grass starter. Although this could be the first, depending on Popplio’s evolution
Rowlets not going to lose his flying type. This secondary type switching happens very rarely in the franchise
CoroCoro is set to release soon. Is there a possibility for any new information? Thoughts?
Well, I think that we might get a little more info on legendaries and maybe more info on region, but I also don’t really see that happening….I feel like there might be some info but it’s probably not gonna happen.
When?
Bird pokemon
There seems to be people disappointed in the size of the Alola Region. It’s completely obvious that this is not the full region. The map shown is extremely details and obviously an overhead view of the first island. Hawaii is made up of a lot of separated islands, which are connected by ferry or boats. I could image the protagonists moving between the islands using this form of transportation until they obtain the HM of Fly. You cannot even place all of he locations, gyms, and cities on the map. I guarantee, there would be more.
Exactly…I don’t understand how people think the entire region is this one island.
By the way those in Europe wondering why we are getting it late its because back in 2013 when X+Y came out it was supposed to be a worldwide release but places in Europe broke the street date and sold it 1+2 upwards to 3days early, thus royally pissing Nintendo off.
Were paying the price for this now : But that’s the mystery solved for those who didn’t know 😛
You guys still get fancy figures and we dont
What’cha mean?
Groudon and kyorge figurrines
I’ll be honest I think we’re both jealous of each other. Many thing the US gets that we don’t, and there’s many stuff we get you don’t.
I’m not jealous.. .
I’m not aware of the differences ?
I’d rather get the game than get some figures I’d put on a shelf and never use.
Then at least let us be able to buy the game on the nintendo store, that way in won’t leak before. 5 days is a long time, most of you guys will probably have finished the game by the time we get it…
You do realise I’m EUROPEAN ! They won’t do that this is a way for us to learn. Its 5 days that’s nothing be thankful its not 6-9months like it used to be.
You guys I’m such a hypocrite.. . Lol.
I used to think Popplio was stupid looking…
Bit after seeing it’s other artwork and it’s amazing personality in game. ..
I think I want one.
Team:
Togetic
Litten
Popplio
etc.. …
If it turns out to be fast I will definitely get it… slow… then I’ll just have Litten.
I don’t know why I’m trying to make a full team before we’ve even seen the other Pokemon of the gen yet! ?
I’m glad someone seems to like Popplio ! He will be my starter for sure haha 🙂
Yeah.. . He grew on me.
He’s like .. I don’t need looks to be.. Me! I do my Own Thang!
Cute in his own way
He grew in you?
Lol naughty
I changed that already.. refresh ?
I like Popplio…